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South Korea hosts the third-largest number of American troops outside the U.S.—after Japan and Germany—stationed there to help defend Seoul against threats from nuclear-armed North Korea and support regional efforts to counter an increasingly assertive China.
After a bungled launch, the vessel appears to be stuck and lying on its side in the water. North Korea said it was a 5,000-ton destroyer.
On Wednesday, local media were given access to the Korea Air and Space Operations Center (KAOC), a highly secured command post located within Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, about 60km south of Seoul.
The Trump administration is contemplating the redeployment of about 4,500 U.S. forces to Guam or other locations in the region.
On Tuesday, South Korean military officials announced that North Korea likely received help from Russia to develop a new air-to-air missile — a missile fired from an aircraft to destroy another aircraft — which is the kind of advanced weaponry that South Korea is attempting to build by 2032.
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World Politics Review on MSNTrump Is Dealing With a Very Different North Korea Than BeforeThe conditions that enabled U.S. diplomacy with North Korea in 2018 no longer exist. The Trump administration needs to reckon with that. The post Trump Is Dealing With a Very Different North Korea Than Before appeared first on World Politics Review.